mcp-morning-brief

Subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds. Get a deduped daily brief. Feeds in, structured brief out, no UI. Free, MIT.

Existing news/RSS MCPs either dump raw items or require paid APIs. mcp-morning-brief is the opinionated "morning brief" shape — exactly what pairs with a daily Claude Desktop chat.

Install

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brief": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@dpm-tools/mcp-morning-brief"]
    }
  }
}

Requires Node.js 22.18+. Feed list stored at ~/.mcp-morning-brief/feeds.json.

Related MCP server: Content Fetcher MCP

Tools (5)

• list_feeds — Show all subscribed feeds.

• add_feed — Subscribe (validates by fetching + parsing).

• remove_feed — Unsubscribe by URL or label.

• fetch_feed — Fetch any RSS/Atom feed (subscribed or not).

• get_brief — Deduped digest of last N hours, grouped by feed.

Example prompts

• "Subscribe me to https://news.ycombinator.com/rss"

• "Give me a morning brief from the last 24 hours."

• "Fetch the latest 10 items from https://lobste.rs/rss"

• "What feeds am I subscribed to?"

See examples/prompts.md for more.

Why this exists

People feel guilty about not reading their RSS reader. This server reframes RSS as a conversation accessory — Claude pulls your morning brief at the start of your daily chat.

Zero deps beyond @modelcontextprotocol/sdk. Parses RSS 2.0 + Atom with regex (handles 95% of feeds). Stores feed list locally as JSON. No API keys. No cloud sync.

Sister servers from dpm

• mcp-devkit, mcp-public-data, mcp-diff, mcp-archive, mcp-citations, mcp-ical, mcp-dict, mcp-http-inspect.

License

MIT © dpm (digital product mill)